Who? When? Where? What? Why? How

Question Words

What is also used with like and look like to ask for a description of a person, a place or an object.

What is your mum like?

What does your cat look like?

Questions

Question Formation

Questions in English are usually formed by either inverting the verb and subject, or by adding an auxiliary verb before the subject (and putting the main verb in bare infinitive form).

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Am I a human being?

Do you know any Irish songs?​

Auxiliars: do does, did, can, could, would, shall, have has, was were, will, be, etc...

Present Perfect

How do you ask a question using the present perfect?

Have

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Auxiliary

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subject

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seen​

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ever

​ Alaska?

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a bear?​

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past participle​

Regular/irregular​

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​I / you / we/ they

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he/ she / it​

Present continuous

How do you ask a question using the present continuous?